Color photography.



a. s. WHITFIELD.

coma PHOTOGRAPHY.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 88. 1914.

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I Afttvr'zzeyw Patented June 29, 1915 GEORGE SYDNEY WHITFIELD, OF WATEOB'D, ENGLAND.

COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY.

Application filed November 18, 1914. Serial No. 872,813.

To all who-m it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE SYDNEY lVI-II'JFIELD, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at lVatlord,

in the county of Herts, Englanihave invented Improvements in or Relating to Color Photography, of which the following is aspecification.

The present invention relates to the improved production, in regular pattern screen practice, of photographs in color on a flexible opaque medium, paper for example, sub.- ject to expansion and contraction by the presence of moisture and it has principally for its object procedure whereby, notwithstanding this disadvantage, accurate permanent registration can be secured between acombined color record and regular pattern viewing screen on the said flexible medium,

hereinafter referred to as paper. Obviously,

the viewing screen must be identical in pattern with the taking screen employed to produce the color record negative to be copied.

Owing" to the fineness of the pattern of the color screens used. displacement as slight as one three hundredth part of an inch between the combined screen and color record suffices to falsify the result. Since such displacement would not only occurin each separate unit (one inch) of length in the length and width of the medium. but probably also to a somewhat 'dillcrcnt extent (loss or more) in each such unit it would result that to ellect accurate registration would be dillicult or impossible.

Nor can the error be allowed for by estimating the proportion of moisture presentin the paper and. after any treatment affecting 40 such proportion, ultimately restoring that '*-pi-ope.1'ti( n before permanently associating the color record and the paper bearing the picture since such restoration does not also restorethe. original dimensions but leaves them greater or less than they originally were.

These disadvantagesare wholly overcome by the present invention according: to which the dimensions of the paper are maintained constant, notwithstanding tendencies to the contrary, from the time when the paper is ready to receive the color record. until it and the color record are in permanent contact with the viewing screen.

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Patented June 2:), 1915.

Sometimes in order to heighten the color 5 effect the paper is provided with a metalhv reflective backing as hereinafter more particularly described;

The accompanying drawing represents in gratly enlarged form a broken perspective to view of a color photograph of the hind hereinbefore described produced according to the present invention and comprising the said. reflective backing.

In this representation (t represents the paper support, 5 the metallic reflective baclc ing, a the color record and (i one type of a regular pattern viewing screen in correct register with the color record.

The carrying out of the invention is suit ably effected in the following inanncr: Starting with paper to which a light sensitive coating has been applied and' alter the said coating, suitably a gelatin emulsion, is dry. the paper is saturated with wateruntil it has become expanded to the fullest practicable extent after which, and while thus expanded. it is applied to the color record negative to be co ned, exposed. and without intermediate ryin r, developed, fixed. washed. applied to the viewing screen with which it is then carefully registered, which operation can be effected in full daylight and. while still in its fully expanded condition permanently secured thereto. thus rendering unaltcrable the positional relationship between the viewing screen and the paper. When a non-gelatin emulsion has been used it may be needful to employ an adhesive to permanently secure the two elements to one another.

It is to be observed moreover that unless the paper he wet when applied to the viewinp, screen there could not be obtained sulliciently close contact between the two for in suring accurate registration. It will also be clear that it dry paper be exposed behind the color record ncnhtive. such paper would. when afterward wetted in the develop ng and fixing treatn' cnt be so altered in size 10G as to put the image quite out-of register.

In carrying out the invention the viewing screen for convenience of manipulation is carried by a temporary support from which itand the combined color record can. when drv. be ultimately stripped.

IllOlClGl to enhance the hrilliancv ot' the effect the paper before being provided with the light sensitive coating is or may bepro- -v1ded with a bright metallic orlike coating,

"advantageously silver, applied in a finely divided condition, it may be in the. form of powder for instance, or deposited in situ, so as to permit of the expansion of the paper without injury to'the said paper or the metallic coating.

' What I claim isi-. 1. The process of producinga combined color record and viewing screen oftlie kind referred to on a-flexible medium consisting in-expanding said flexible medium as fully as practicable and. maintaining it in such expanded statenotwithstanding contrary tendencies, from the time when it is ready to I receive the color record until said color rec- 0rd and a corresponding viewing screen are 'placedin permanent contact.

2, The process of producing a combined 'color record and viewing screen of the kind 1' referred to o'n-a flexible medium consisting in'coating said flexible medium with a light sensitive coating, drying said coated flexible medium, afterward wetting it with water until it is thereby expanded to the practicable limit, exposing it in such condition through a transparency previously taken through a regular pattern screen corresponding to the viewing screen and maintaining it in' said wet and expanded condition through all intermediate treatments until said color record and the viewing screen are color record and placed in permanent contact.

4. The process of producing acombined viewing screen of the kind referred to on paper, consisting in expand- -ing said paper as fully as practicable and maintaining'it 1n such expanded state notwithstanding contrary tendencies, from the time when it is ready to receive the color record until saidcolor record and a corresponding viewing screen are placed in permanent contact. r

5. The process of producing a combined color record and viewing screen of the kind referred to on paper consisting in causing said paper carrying alight sensitive coating, to absorb moisture until it is thereby expanded to the practicable limit, producing the color record on said paper withoutin termediate drying and maintaining it in such wet and expanded condition throughout all subsequent treatment until said color record and a corresponding viewing screen are placed in permanent contact.

6. The process of producing a combined color record and viewingscreen of the kind referred to on paper consisting in coating said paper with a light sensitive "coating, drying said coated paper afterward wetting it withwater until it is thereby expanded to the practicable limit, exposing it in such condition through a transparency previously taken through a regular pattern screen corresponding to the iviewingscreen and maintaining it in said wet andiexpanded condition through all intermediate treatments until said color record and the viewing screen are placed in permanent contact.

7. The process of-producing a combined color record and viewing screen of the kind referred to on aflexible medium consisting in causing said flexible medium carrying a light sensitive coating, to absorb moisture until it is thereby expandedto the practicable limit, producing-the coloi'f record on said flexible medium withoutintermediate drying, maintaining. it in such expanded condition until it is ready to be combined with a corresponding viewing screen, visually registering said color record in full daylight and while thus registered permanently combining said color record and viewing screen. 2

8. The process of producing a combined color record and viewing screen of the kind referred to on a flexible mediu consisting in causing said flexible medium carrying a light sensitive coating, to; absorb moisture until it is thereby expanded ,to the practicable limit, producing the color record on said flexible medium without intermediate drying, maintaining it in such expanded condition until it is ready to be combined with a corresponding vieiiting screen, mounting said viewing screen. on a temporary support, visually registering said color record,

without intermediate drying, with said view-.

ing screen and while thus registered permanently combining said color record and viewing screen and removing said temporary support.

9. The process of producing a combined color record and viewing screen of the kindreferred to on a flexible medium consisting in coating said flexible medium with a light sensitive coating, drying said coated flexible medium, afterward wetting'it with water until it is thereby expanded to the practicable limit, exposing itin such condition through a transparency ataken through a regular pattern viewing screen having strong.

colors, maintaining it in ssaid wet and expanded condition throughout all intermediate treatments until said color record is ready to be combined with a viewing screen .d permanently combining it without inediat'o' dry mgs jwith a. iewing screen with and permanently attached to said color record, a. flexible sup ort carrying said viewing screen and co or record and, be-

tween the latter and the flexible support, a 10 metallic reflectivebacking serving to heighten the color efi'ect.

Signed at London, England, this 4th day of November lm l.

GEORGE SYDNEY WHITFIELD. Witnesses H. D. JAMESON, A. H. STEVENS.

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